Gold Nugget 164 - The Way of Darkness

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      The way of sin is in all respects one of darkness.  It is dark in its origin, dark in its course, and dark in its end. …

      Most criminals are deplorably ignorant.  Vicious men are generally men whose mental cultivation has been neglected by others or by themselves.  Ignorance of Divine truth leads the way to wickedness.  The first preventative of evil is the religious teaching of children. …

      When a man gives way to sin he sacrifices his higher to his lower self.  He sinks from the sunlit mountain heights of purity to gloomy depths of baser living. …

      Sin distorts a man’s thoughts, blinds his eyes to the highest truth, raises a mist about the old landmarks of right and wrong, and plunges the soul into a stupor of moral indifference.  From neglecting to follow the light of God, the sinner comes at last to be incapable of beholding it. …

      God’s Spirit will not always strive with the sons of men.  There comes a time when God leaves the self-abandoned soul to its own devices.  Then, indeed, a darkness as of winter midnight sinks upon the lost being. …                        

      The one way of escape is backwards – to retrace his steps in humble penitence.  Then, indeed, he may see the welcome light of his Father’s home, and even earlier the Light of the world, the Saviour who has come out into the darkness to lead him back to God.

 

The Pulpit Commentary, Proverbs p. 97, Proverbs 4:19, (W. F. Adeney)

See also Genesis 6:3

 

Gold Nugget 164

The Way of Darkness

 

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